There’s a lot of great research published about development and I find it hard to keep up, as the pile of reading on my desk grows higher and higher. If you’re short on time this week (like me) then I recommend putting these two at the top of your pile – ONE’s DATA Report and Charles Kenny’s essay on the SDGs.

After months of discussion – and at times, confusion – we are finally able to see the light at the end of the post-2015 development agenda tunnel. This comes in the form of two much anticipated publications: the outcome of the Open Working Group on Sustainable...

Earlier this month, we launched our new campaign Road to 2015: Open Data for Sustainable Development at the United Nations Headquarters. As with all the work we do, transparency and accountability are at the heart of this new campaign. They also feature heavily in the...

The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) will convene for its first high level meeting tomorrow in Mexico City. Established following the Fourth High Level Forum in Busan, South Korea in 2011, the Global Partnership aims to make development...

This article was first published on the Global Partnership’s Effective Development Co-operation Blog: http://devcooperation.org The world’s largest and most influential providers of aid reaffirmed their commitment to transparency this year. A high-level panel...

Guest post by David Banisar, Article 19 This week in New York at the UN General Assembly meetings on the future of the Millennium Development Goals, the call for “revolution” has been heard throughout the rooms and halls of the United Nations and in the cafés, hotels,...

Guest post by Michelle Mueller, AidData Summer Fellow in Mexico – originally posted here. On July 25th, Mexico announced its intention to host the first ministerial-level meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation. Both a recipient...

This is a joint post with Judith Randel, Executive Director of Development Initiatives, originally posted in Devex. Last Saturday, the United Kingdom hosted a G-8 session specifically on Trade, Tax and Transparency — billed as the ‘3Ts’ event. This event highlighted...

Originally carried in Devex On Friday, a panel of world leaders appointed by the United Nations proposed a highly anticipated framework for stamping out extreme poverty by 2030. The recommendations are a dramatic shift from the Millennium Development Goals,...

Leading transparency and access to information campaigners including CAFOD, Global Witness, Integrity Action and Publish What You Fund, today welcomed a new UN report as driving progress towards enhanced citizen accountability around the world. The report by the High...